Author:
Julian Dunn
Julian is a former Chef employee
In Search of Speed: The State of Applications
By Julian Dunn
We are very pleased to announce the results from Chef’s 2018 State of Applications Survey. Earlier this year, we partnered with Dimensional Research to survey 347 applications and IT operations professionals worldwide on the topic of application build and release processes.
Read moreChef Open Source Community News – August 2018
By Julian Dunn
Here’s this month’s round up of what happened in August across the Chef, Habitat, and InSpec open-source communities. Chef This month’s release of Chef Client 14.4 is the newest in the Chef 14 series, and includes seven new preview resources, many improvements to existing resources, and a brand new Knife profile management command.
Read moreUsing InSpec with Cisco IOS Devices
By Julian Dunn
On Wednesday, August 1, we presented a webinar on using InSpec with Cisco IOS network devices. Today, fewer than 10% of network teams are using any automation tools, yet through the NetOps 2.
Read moreChef Open Source Community News – July 2018
By Julian Dunn
Here’s what happened in July across the Chef, Habitat, and InSpec open-source communities. Chef This month we released Chef Client 14.3, the newest release in the Chef 14 series. Chef 14.3 introduces the concept of preview resources, adds several new resources, and cleans up the shell_out API. What is a preview resource, you ask?
Read moreQ&A with the Sous Chefs
By Julian Dunn
Chef sat down with Dan Webb of the Sous Chefs organization recently for a Q&A session. Dan is a winner of a 2018 Awesome Community Chef award for all of his contributions and mentorship to the Chef community. (These answers have been edited and condensed for clarity.) Who are the Sous Chefs?
Read moreEnd-of-Life Announcement for Chef Compliance Server
By Julian Dunn
Today we are announcing the end-of-life date of the standalone Chef Compliance Server product to be December 31, 2018. All of the functionality of Chef Compliance Server is already incorporated into Chef Automate 2 whose general availability we announced at ChefConf 2018.
Read moreChef Open Source Community News – June 2018
By Julian Dunn
Here’s what happened in June across the Chef, Habitat, and InSpec open-source communities. Chef This month we released Chef Client 14.2.0, the latest and greatest in the Chef 14 series.
Read moreChefConf 2018 Keynote Video: Product Vision & Announcements
By Julian Dunn
It’s hard to believe ChefConf 2018 was nearly a month ago! We were excited to welcome Chef customers and community members to Chicago and share some of the exciting product developments we’ve been working over the last year.
Read moreEnd-of-Life Announcement for Chef Reporting, Enterprise Chef Server 11, and Chef Analytics
By Julian Dunn
Last week at ChefConf 2018, we announced the general availability (GA) of Chef Automate 2. Chef Automate 2 is a continuous automation platform that provides operational visibility into your managed fleet, with visual tools such as a query language, trend graph and event timeline to help you narrow down and correct errors.
Read moreChef Open Source Community News – May 2018
By Julian Dunn
Here are this month’s updates from the Chef, Habitat, and InSpec open-source communities. Despite the fact that we at Chef Software were busy preparing for ChefConf – which had its own raft of product announcements, including the release of Chef Automate 2 – we also managed to accomplish a lot in the open-source world.
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